US Patent Issued to STIEBEL ELTRON on Dec. 9 for "Bearing component for flow sensor, flow measuring unit, and domestic appliance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,923, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to STIEBEL ELTRON GMBH & Co. KG (Holzminden, Germany).

"Bearing component for flow sensor, flow measuring unit, and domestic appliance" was invented by Michael Grobe (Hoexter, Germany), Steffen Klie (Lobach, Germany) and Stefan Engelke (Hoexter, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing component of a flow sensor of a domestic appliance has a rotary axle which, in the installed state, is oriented so as to be substantially perpendicular to a flow direction of a fluid channel of the domestic appliance. The flow sensor has a first bearing at each of the opposing ends of the rotary axle, two oppo...